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ADDRESS 
Read by the President, Mr. T. G. Bayfield,- to the Members of 
the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society at their Eighth 
Annual Meeting, held at the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, 
March 27th, 1877. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — On taking office the members of this 
Society will remember that I expressed a fear, that however 
anxious to perform my duties as President, my very limited leisure 
would prevent such attention being given to the objects of the 
Society as their importance might deserve ; and I must crave your 
indulgence for the many short-comings in my notices of the papers 
read during the session. 
Among those essays which do not appear in our proceedings, were 
several of considerable interest, illustrating as they did many 
subjects in Natural History, not so generally known as they ought 
to be. These include an account of a visit made by our Secretary in 
the autumn of 1875, to Norway, replete with notes on manners, 
customs, and the natural features of a part of Europe seldom 
visited by Englishmen, except for purposes of sport ; but which 
appears for many reasons worthy of more extended research, and we 
hope yet to hear much more of the home of the ancient Vikings, 
and of a people so intimately connected with the early history of our 
islands, and whose influence upon our national character and language 
has been so great and lasting. 
At the Juno meeting, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., gave an 
interesting account of a visit to the 'Bass Rock, in which he 
said, the first recorded visit by a naturalist to this spot is 
that on August 19th, 1661, by Ray and his pupil Willughby; 
and on the same day in the year 1835, Audubon and his 
friend Macgillivray landed there. Passing over the historical 
portion of the paper we are told, that the present rent of the 
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